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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA, AUGUST 1, 1957,
The Butler Herald
A Will-o'-The Wisp
Called Progress
No Prescription for
Faith and Hope
Entered at the Post Office in Butler, .
Georgia as Mail Matter of j This inspiring editorial appeared
Second Class jin a recent issue of th Albany
Chas. Benns, Jr., Managing Mit °r Changing times call for chane-
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr. ! in ~^ratecy. h g
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO. ^ Some months ago we were com-
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ! mitted to a policy of prudence in
local government spending because
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
Phone UNion 2-4485
it was our impression that Im
provident usage of taxpayer funds
would tend to overburden and
throttle the progress of the city.
Life is a mirror. Try smiling at At this writing we have about
it and see what it sends back to decided that a 180 degree reversal
you.
of policy is necessary lest we
languish and die an the vine. We
Dan Eden tells us that kind peo- are slightly tired of hearing boom
pie like to help the poor; but prosperity reports from Atlanta,
everybody likes to help the rich. M a pon, Augusta, Moultrie, etc.,
_ j while the common talk in Albany’s
We find the cost of gasoline ex-j CO f^ ee clutches evolves into a com-
clusive of taxes is now only 14% i miseration on hard times,
above the 1947-49 average; but di-j Regardless of cost, we are now
rect taxes on gasoLne are 29% , for flre protection, road building,
„ reater I slum clearance, building a new
j civic center and auditorium, deed-
We read the other day that the dig municipal-owned land to in-
“goldcn age” was when the chil-1 dustry, expansion, consolidation or
dren had grown too large for baby an Y other seed that bears promise
sitters and too young to borrow the to flower into that illusive will-,o-
family car. jthe-wisp called progress.
| In short any dunned fool can
Today’s inflation is better. Most stnnd still and blame his stagna-
of the people who say a dollar was tion and stultfication on powers
a dollar in the good old days did beyond his control.
not have two-bits
Ellaville Sun.
at the time.—
We submit that we have accom
plished virtually nothing on a cau
tious program of do-nothing, so
now it is time to spur our sopor-
Georgia averages one auto to
every two adults,. One must have 1 ifice politicians into action,
an auto nowadays in which to pur
sue happiness, the Herald Journal
Greensboro, tells us.
Senator Russell has been receiv
ing much national publicity in
newspapers as result of being
quarterback on the team fighting
the Civil Rights legislation.
Maybe So
(Cochran Journal)
A South Georgia minister told
us this story:
In the days of the frock coat
there was a small town preacher
who always carried his testament
Sixty-four per cent of the land j in the back pocket of the old style
in Georgia, or a total of about 25 cut-away. The preacher’s sons,
million acres, in forests. The
value of timber lands has in
creased. Such land is in demand.
We always figure there is some
thing wrong with us when walking
over town we fail to see or hear
anything sufficiently interesting or
amusing to make a paragraph for
The Herald.
smarting under what they con
ceived to be unjustified Sunday
morning thrashing, abstracted the
testament from the tail pocket of
our preacher's coat and substituted
therefor a worn and battered deck
of cards, held together by a rubber
band. When the sin-hating preach
er stood up before his congregation
he reached in his back pocket and
pulled out the deck of cards from
Sister McCullar tells us that a 1 where the testament should be.
fellow said he decided he wouldn't | The startled minister gave one look
marry until he found the ideal at the hated pieces of cardboard
woman. He found her but they and then threw them from him as
didn't marry. She was looking for if they had been rattlesnakes and
the ideal man. 'bowing his head said:
| “Lord, deliver me from my
“He who does not save something 'church duties today and deliver in-
every month out of what he makes to my hands just fer five minutes
will fail, as surely as day follows the culprit who has edfiled my
night. He may think that he won’t back pocket.”
but inevitably he will fail.”—An-
drew Carnegie. j Bushel Measurement
It has been truly said there is
no prescription for faith and hope,
and this is borne out in many
cases which reveal the power of
the human spirit.
Recently Dr. Geo. J. Boines tes
tified to the above before the Scien
tific Assembly of General Practice
in St. Louis, Mo. He is quoted as
saying faith and hope can work
near miracles when alliey with
medicine and therapy. Even so-
called incurable disesase have
been known to bow in the fact of a
patient’s determination to get bet
ter. There is scarcely one of us
who have not seen hope seemingly
prolong a life, and faith surmount
the doubts of those who have
watched anxiously as the life of a
person literally hung in the balance
between living and dying.
It has been our privilege to know
such a person, who, suffering from
a crippling disease fought with a
cheerfulness which, the attending
physician said, had as much to do
with the apparent complete recov
ery as the medicine administered.
We do not mean to imply that
the faith and hope which ‘some
people are able to muster replaces
in any measure the treatment
given by physicians, but these
two attributes go a long way in
lessening the pangs which accom
pany illness.
In this country, where telephone
service is provided by private en
terprises, there is phone for one out
of three persons. In Europe where
telephone service is generally a
function of government, the ratio
is one phone for every 28 persons.
Gene Britton, Atlanta news con
tributor, tells his readers that
President Eisenhower receives from
Georgia each year more than 100
letters wanting to slay the Presi
dent. When they do, an expert
team of bodyguards—the United
States Secret Service—swings into
action. It usually finds out in a
matter of hours whether the writ
er was a crackpot or someone with
genuine malicious intent toward
the Chief Executive.
Earlier Days in the County
These items appeared in an issue
of the Herald published during
August of 1903:
The legislature adjourned Wed
nesday and our representative,Hon.
W. E. Steed, is at home again.
Mr. and Mrs. Causey who are in
charge of the depot and telegraph
office here are rendering satisfac-
torn service to the public.
Caterpillars have made their ap
pearance in cotton in many por-
' tions of the State though we have
j heard of none in this county.
The prospects for a good school
is very good: school begins Aug.
31st, with 100 pupils already sub
scribed and many new ones to hear
from.
Mr. A. J. Kirksey has purchased
from Judge Coleman three desir-
! able lots on the corner south of the
j Hodges House in Reynolds and will
improve the same with a handsome
residence.
i As a parting injunction to those
'who go to Tybee this week we urge
Jyou to load up an mosquito co-
| logne. These pests are terrific on
.the island, otherwise you will find
everything pleasant.
I Supt. Jessie Hall of this division
j Central Ry., came out an a special
j car yesterday and carried back to
i Macon with him his father, Dr. J.
|W. Hall, for the benefit of his
| health.
i Tuesday the Reynolds juniors
crossed bats with Butler juniors on
Butler diamond. Both teams played
fast ball, but it was soon discov
ered that the Butlerites were too
heavy for their opponents.
Mf. D. L. Downs, son of Mr. Z.
P. Downs, has put in his applica
tion to join the U. S. Army for the
next three years. Mr. Downs is 22
and has been a member of the Bap
tist church about five years.
We are going to have the best
cotton market this season you’ve
ever known. And, too, we are de
termined to have the cotton if
highest prices is what it takes.Our
local buyers are in earnest about
the matter and will have the cot
ton if it is to be bought.
The bill introduced by Dr. Ed-
James M. Cox died recently at
his home in Dayton, Ohio, at the
age of 87. Mr. Cox was the un
successful Democratic presidential
candidate in 1920. The Atlanta
Journal and The Atlanta Constitu
tion are among the group of news
paper published by Mr. Cox. He was
the first man ever to be elected
governor of Ohio for three terms.
Forty-Two Cats Nobody
Wanted
wards to divide the profits of the
dispensary at Buena Vista with the
county passed by a good majority.
The delegation sent up from Bue
na Vista to defeat the voice and
wishes of the people of Marion
county and very little weight with
the voters in the house as the vote
stood 89 to 21.
Recently the Muscogee county
school board adopted text books for
use in that county for the next 5
years beginning Jan. 1, 1904, and
signed contracts with the publish
ing houses. It is the impression
that the contracts will stand, not
withstanding the fact that the uni
form text book bill has passed the
legislature.
From the Macon Telegraph:
In a way it was downright piti
ful. Forty-two Macon cats, their
whiskers held proudly aloft and
their purrs going 90-to-nothing,
standing around waiting to be
claimed during Animal Adoption
Day last week end.
As the day dragged on and dog
after dog went happily yelping off
with a new master, the cats’
whiskers began to droop and their
purring gave way to an occasional
forlorn meooww. For these were the
42 cats nobody wanted. To some it
might seem amusing that cats,
with their legendary nine lives,
were the animals led off to the gas
chamber. But in a way it was sad.
We fully agree with this ex
change: “The world would welcome
a race between Russia and the
United States in agricultural pro
duction. Millions are still under
fed. And we all would be better off
producing food instead of bombs.”
NOTICE
Our auto repair shops will close at
12 o’clock noon on Saturdays. Beginning
August 3, 1957.
HART’S GARAGE
SUGGS MOTOR CO. •
PAYNE MOTOR CO.
STANDARD OIL PLANT
H. H. PAYNE, Agent
M. E. Thompson took the plat
form at the E. D. Rivers celebratian
in Lakeland for a few minutes po
litical talk. Old politicians never
die, according to the Greensboro
Herald Journal.
A. C. Jolly in his Cartersville
Chuckles tell his readers that the
hazzard of walking under a lad
der pales into insignificance when
compared to holding one for a girl
to climb down in an elopement
plot.
Most ingenious man we know is
the neighbor who mislays his veg
etable seeds each year. It's amaz
ing, he says, how much this simple
precaution saves wear and tear on
garden tools. — Christian Science
Monitor.
The American Newspaper Pub
lishers’ Association stated a few
days ago that newsprint consump
tion for the first six months of this
year had reached an all time high
in the United States. It said the
June consumption also had
reached a new peak. The associa
tion estimated that some 574,684
tons of newsprint were used in this
country in jume compared with
559,419 tons in June 1956.
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TSIlfaLwEaW
Government officials had a con
ference recently to determine “How
much is a bushel,” and seek a
size and weight for general use.
I The weight of a bushel varies in
j th® states. For instance in Louisi
ana the weight of a bushel is 32
pounds. In California it is 50
pounds. A bushel of rye weighs
differently in different states. The
conference hopes to arrive at a
system of grain trading so that the
i hundredweight can be used ih
place of the bushel. If the con
ference can agree the Congress
' Will be asked to make the agree-
jment law. It would seem that a.
bushel is a bushel and that the '
weight differences would be the j
weight of the thing being measur- j
' ed. A bushel of land could measure I
| in sizethe same as a bushel of corn
| but the weights would be quite dif
ferent. The bushel as uve have it!
can hardly be improved on.
1 According to Congressman Brown-
son, of Indiana, the federal gov
ernment operates 19,711 govern
ment-owned, or partly govern
ment-owned plants and commercial
type facilities in which it has in
vested $11 billion of the taxpayers
money .
Chas. J. Block, Macon, has re
signed as a member of the State
Board of Regents. He was an able
member and rendered the state
valuable service. He was chairman
of the Education Committee. Mr.
1 Block was warmly esteemed by all
who knew him.
Hugh Park, in his Around Town
column in the Atlanta Journal,
tells us that if the state follows
Gov. Griffin’s proposal that it buy
Stone Mountain, it will officially
rediscover a big solid gold rock
that drew tourists to it before
there was a house in Alanta.
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Georgia soon will have a nursery
the Greensboro Herald-Journal an
nounces, designed to have the
world’s highest production of forest)
tree seedlings, according to Gov. *
Griffin. Construction on a 140-acre
nursery project, located 15 miles
South on the highway, will begin
immediately. It will boost Geor
gia’s seedling production to a pro
jected 250-million annually. Gov.
Griffin said the nursery site was
chosen for its size, typography, soil
texture and proximity to the Geor
gia Forestry Center which is located
in Macon.
Yes—everybody loves the delicious, refreshing
taste of Orange-CRUSH. It’s the right drink
for the whole family. Orange-CRUSH is flavored
with the fresh juice of specially selected
oranges. That’s what makes it taste so good.
It’s good for you too! Take home a 6-bottle
Handi-Pack for your family, next time you shop.
Tastes so good...so good for you!
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